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$75,000 'cut & paste' fines coming: What the article doesn’t mention that is that Righthaven files suits demanding $75,000 (sometimes for infringements where total damages might be hundreds of dollars, if that) before informing targets that they may have unintentionally exceeded Fair Use.

Since Fair Use is imprecise, and highly dependent on many factors, it is surprisingly easy to quote more than Fair Use–and not realize it.

Righthaven’s filing suits without any attempt at notifying unintentional violators reveal that this is just another lawyer who has figured out how to loot people that aren’t rich to make himself wealthy.

Maybe it’s time to scrap copyright law as to the only way to stop trash like this.
Posted by: claytoncramer | 07/22/10 | 10:43 pm |

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